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As of March 10, Peachcare for Kids, Georgia's health insurance program for children of low-income families, will stop accepting new applicants. President Bush, in an effort to reign in the looming federal budget deficit, has submitted to Congress a budget that cuts the funding of programs such as Peachcare....
Originally posted byZaid
I AM AMAZED that you think that public healthcare (much cheaper and more efficient than privat healthcare) should be more important than bombing the hell out of Iraq. I'm amazed you put his child's health lower than the profits of Halliburton and Blackwater.
Give me a break. Good article man.
Originally posted byChris Breault
As usual you people decline to make comments of any real substance and instead engage childish name-calling, but so be it.
In response to the attacks upon my field of study, supposed career path and it's assumed complete lack of social good: Studying philosophy has enhanced and sharpened my ability to think. Because of this I have scored in the 97th percentile on the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), which means I will be getting into a rather nice law school. Which also means in four years I'll have and income of over six figures. Which means I'll be paying no less than $30,000 per year through my working career. More than likely this figure will double after eight or nine years and probably triple after eight or nine more. So, as a citizen, I will probably contribute more to our nation's tax coffers than everyone else here who has commented combined. Would any of this be possible without such things as PELL grant and FSEOG grant (both need-based undergraduate grants)? Absolutely not.
So you see, the theory is if you help the children of disadvantaged citizens grow up healthy, strong and well-educated they will themselves become law-abiding high-productive citizens. In this way our society stays economically competitive and saves billions in prisons, courts, and welfare programs generally.
One way or another the poor and disadvantaged will exact a cost on society, be it through education and healthcare or through crime and punishment.
Originally posted byChris Breault
As usual you people decline to make comments of any real substance and instead engage childish name-calling, but so be it.
In response to the attacks upon my field of study, supposed career path and it's assumed complete lack of social good: Studying philosophy has enhanced and sharpened my ability to think. Because of this I have scored in the 97th percentile on the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), which means I will be getting into a rather nice law school. Which also means in four years I'll have and income of over six figures. Which means I'll be paying no less than $30,000 per year through my working career. More than likely this figure will double after eight or nine years and probably triple after eight or nine more. So, as a citizen, I will probably contribute more to our nation's tax coffers than everyone else here who has commented combined. Would any of this be possible without such things as PELL grant and FSEOG grant (both need-based undergraduate grants)? Absolutely not.
So you see, the theory is if you help the children of disadvantaged citizens grow up healthy, strong and well-educated they will themselves become law-abiding high-productive citizens. In this way our society stays economically competitive and saves billions in prisons, courts, and welfare programs generally.
One way or another the poor and disadvantaged will exact a cost on society, be it through education and healthcare or through crime and punishment.
Originally posted byChris Breault
As usual you people decline to make comments of any real substance and instead engage childish name-calling, but so be it.
In response to the attacks upon my field of study, supposed career path and it's assumed complete lack of social good: Studying philosophy has enhanced and sharpened my ability to think. Because of this I have scored in the 97th percentile on the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), which means I will be getting into a rather nice law school. Which also means in four years I'll have and income of over six figures. Which means I'll be paying no less than $30,000 per year through my working career. More than likely this figure will double after eight or nine years and probably triple after eight or nine more. So, as a citizen, I will probably contribute more to our nation's tax coffers than everyone else here who has commented combined. Would any of this be possible without such things as PELL grant and FSEOG grant (both need-based undergraduate grants)? Absolutely not.
So you see, the theory is if you help the children of disadvantaged citizens grow up healthy, strong and well-educated they will themselves become law-abiding high-productive citizens. In this way our society stays economically competitive and saves billions in prisons, courts, and welfare programs generally.
One way or another the poor and disadvantaged will exact a cost on society, be it through education and healthcare or through crime and punishment.
Megan
posted 3/22/07 @ 11:22 AM EST
Many Iraqi boys and girls much like yours have had their lives changed for the better as a result of our involvement, regardless of whether you think our reasons for being there are right. These kids now have a chance at education, because our soldiers are helping to establish schools for them. They get excited to see our men and women in uniform coming with toys, candy, hugs...normal childhood treats that some have been deprived of for much of their short little lives.
The children my husband unearthed in a mass grave during one of his two combat tours in Iraq didn't get those experiences. Those kids were slaughtered by the regime of a man who, you are right, "loved only himself." What makes them different than your son? Only that they were born in Iraq rather than the US. These graves, which contain thousands of bodies, have been and are being found all over Iraq. You say that isn't a humanitarian crisis?
So, before you write another column complaining about wanting government assistance that you may not require to put food on the table, think about those kids. Think about the little girl who won't be subjected to a rape room at the age of ten or twelve because the people who established them are gone. Think about the kids who, just the other day, were left in the backseat of a car to be blown to bits by an IED, presumably by their own parents. Treasure your son's privileges Chris, and be grateful for the fact that he can even get to a dentist.